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Outline: Focus on playing all OBS files, such as OBS MP4 Files with Camtasia Studio. The article explains how to get Camtasia Studio to work perfectly with OBS MP4 files by transcoding to Camtasia Studio friendly files.

Have you ever recorded some game footage with OBS(Open Broadcaster Software)? Generally OBS saves files as MP4. The files can be uploaded straight to YouTube or other video hosting site just fine. However, when you bring OBS MP4 files to Camtasia Studio for editing goal, you may come across this problem - Premiere Pro doesn't support the OBS export files in .MP4 format well. Take a look at the following OBS MP4 to Camtasia Studio issue?

“I'm trying to open the mp4 files saved locally by OBS with Camtasia Studio 8 to do some post-processing and it is failing because it claims it's unsupported media or missing codecs. However if I open the same .mp4 file with VLC 64 and use the convert/save option to basically re-save it (saving using original video file), camtasia will open it the resuling file just fine.

I've tried changing the settings which OBS uses for recording of video and audio, but none of them work. Any suggestions?”

In fact, it's the MP4 codec related issue. To fix the problem, you'll need to convert the OBS MP4 to a more editing-friendly format for Camtasia Studio.

Firstly, download a professional application to do the OBS to Camtasia Studio conversion. The one used in the article - say, Pavtube Video Converter - is outstanding in the features of easy-to-use and fast conversion speed. With it, you can easily convert OBS MP4 Files to Camtasia Studio friendly format like AVI, MOV etc. Mac version - Pavtube Video Converter for Mac.